Greece austerity protests

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A dog barks at a formation of riot police near the Greek parliament in Athens on June 15. Tens of thousands of grassroot activists and unionists converged on Athens' central Syntagma Square as Prime Minister George Papandreou prepared to push through a new five-year campaign of tax hikes, spending cuts and selloffs of state property to continue receiving aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid default.

A dog barks at a formation of riot police near the Greek parliament in Athens on June 15. Tens of thousands of grassroot activists and unionists converged on Athens' central Syntagma Square as Prime Minister George Papandreou prepared to push through a new five-year campaign of tax hikes, spending cuts and selloffs of state property to continue receiving aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid default. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters)

A dog barks at a formation of riot police near the Greek parliament in Athens on June 15. Tens of thousands of grassroot activists and unionists converged on Athens' central Syntagma Square as Prime Minister George Papandreou prepared to push through a new five-year campaign of tax hikes, spending cuts and selloffs of state property to continue receiving aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid default.